Lithuania plans to hold drills in case of accident at the Belarus nuclear plant

Re:Lithuania plans to hold drills in case of accident at the... by rob74 on Thursday February 18, 2021 @07:56AM (#26179264)

The distance between the plants is not the point - the point is that the Ignalina plant was in a sparsely populated area ~150 km from Vilnius (and subject to EU regulations), while the new plant is only ~60 km from Vilnius (and subject to Belarusian regulations).

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Re:Lithuania plans to hold drills in case of accident at the... by maratc on Thursday February 18, 2021 @11:49AM (#26182158)

There's a French NPP 20 km from Luxembourg and Swiss NPP on a river dividing them from Germany.

Chernobyl was 100km from Kiev (with a population of 2.5m), but Kiev almost did not suffer, as the winds took the fallout in the direction of ... Belarus, where 70% of it landed.

Given that Belarus can reliably claim the title of a country worst affected by nuclear accidents even before they had a NPP of their own, I think they are well positioned to do everything to prevent any such accidents in the future. Holding nation-wide "drills" just for the case looks a bit like demonizing.

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Re:Lithuania plans to hold drills in case of accident at the... by cbmuser on Thursday February 18, 2021 @04:58PM (#26186253)

Germany has lots of plants near larger cities. Neckarwestheim NPP, for example, is just about 25 km from the city of Stuttgart and it operated a rather old boiling water reactor at the site until 2011.

At this point, only the far more modern Neckarwestheim II is operational at the site.

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Re:Lithuania plans to hold drills in case of accident at the... by natmaka on Saturday February 20, 2021 @07:51AM (#26203753)

At best this is another manifestation of the "is–ought problem" and AFAIK there is no way to decide, at worst it is an appeal to tradition ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_tradition ).

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